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I remember when my wife and I first moved into our house, both being book lovers, that I envisioned one of the rooms being such a library with labyrinthine book shelves to hold everything. That idea went the way of the dodo when our second child was born and we needed it as a bedroom, and we got tired of having a wall of books in our living room.
So we have, over the years, done occasional clear-outs of books that as we thought more carefully about them we realized we would never read a second time, and we passed them on or sold them on Amazon.
But with this reader, I am so thrilled that I can have the equivalent of a small-town library on a single DVD (thank you, Project Gutenberg!) and can move them easily between my computer and my soon-to-be-purchased Sony Reader. Once everything is in place, I plan to get rid of the books that are in our house only for me if they are duplicated in PG (speaking of which, I give a small annual donation to PG and would encourage all of us who have downloaded lots of their books to do the same).
The thought of having various collections on different SD cards and having all that with me wherever I go is so thrilling and really brings home how far all this technology stuff has come.
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